[Leica] LUG membership, "A Waiting for Go/Dig" issue.

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Sure, or not waiting at all and just shooting film,
which works pretty darn well.

We've got one M mount digi RF on the market now. I
suspect we'll see some more in the months and years to
come, waiting or not :-)

B. D. Colen wrote:

>Mark Rabiner wrote interestingly and at length on this topic:
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>>I do think it was the digital thing which has widened the gap between
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>>use and Leica conversation on the LUG and in the real world. Some of us
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>>are bound to feel a bit sheepish about what we talk like we are
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>>user of and what we really do use.
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>However, I think there's something a bit weird about all this "waiting."
>Either we owned - and still owned - Leica equipment because we are
>photographers, whether photographing professionally, photographing for
>our own enjoyment, or both - or we owned it because we were poseurs. If
>we are photographers, then the photography is primary and the equipment
>is secondary, and we aren't sitting waiting for anything. We may be
>hanging onto M glass because we are awaiting a time when we can use that
>glass on a digital rangefinder of some sort. But we are also continuing
>to photograph, whether with other brands of digital equipment, or with
>our Lecia film cameras. But if we are simply frozen on the sidelines,
>unwilling to make "compromises" which involve using equipment that
>produces images not up to Leica quality, we aren't photographers, we're
>poseurs. Because if what matters to us is photography, then we are
>committed to the idea that an image captured with a Holga - or a cell
>phone camera - is better than an image not captured. ;-)
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>B. D.
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>Hanging onto the glass and Awaiting a digital rangefinder body while
>continuing to photograph
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